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SIMON BURKE/IAN, OF CHICAGQ'ILLINIS.

COMBINED CLOTHES- LINE AND CLOTHES-PIN HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.l 634,519, dated October 10,1899.

Applicationled December 12, 1898. Serial No. 698,983. (No model.)

and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation of the parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed. n

The object of my invention is to provide -a receptacle for a number of clothes-pins and a holder or reel for a clothes-line which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction, strong, and durable and by means of which a clothes-line and a number of pins may be kept together in such a manner as to prevent the pins being lost and the line becoming entangled or soiled.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I willlnow proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my holder, showing it closed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating a modification in the construction of the reel for the line, and Fig. 4 is a similar view showing a modification in the constru ction of thereceptacle for the pins.-

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the diderent views of the drawings.

A represents a box which may be made of any suitable size and material, but preferably of wood and-rectangular in shape. The upper end of this box is closed by means of a cover or top B, through the center of which passes and is journaled a spindle 0;, having on its outer end a handle b, used forV removing the cover and holding the same when it is being used as a reel on which to wind thel clothes-line-C, which may be of the ordinary kind. Mounted on thevspindle ais a drum D, to which one end of the clothes-line may be secured andaround which it is wound. On the inner or lower portion of the spindle a is secured by means cfa washer c and a pin c a plate E, which is of a shape in outline to correspond with the cavity of the box or receptacle and forms a part of the reel or lineholder. This plate is provided on its lower surface with a handle e to be used for turning the reel when it is desired to wind the line thereon and is held at a sucient distance from the cover B to provide a space between it and said cover for the reception of the clothes-line. As shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the plate E is somewhat smaller than the interiorof the box or receptacle A, so as to pass thereinto and to prevent the cover B being dislocated. Thev handle b may be rotatably secured Y on the spindle a and the cover B, drum D, andplate E, comprising the reel, fixed to said spindle, or the handle may A be xed thereto and theureel rotatably secured thereon. The lower portion of the box or receptacle A may be used for the deposit fof clothes-pins E or other articles.

Iny Fig. 3 I have shown a modification in the construction of the reel or line-holder, which consists in providing the cover B with ahandle b2, two downwardlyextendin g brackets d, within whose lower portion is journaled Va drum or roller D', which has on each of its Vends a disk d' to hold the line in position when it is being wound on the roller or drum. Secured to one end of the shaft d2 of the Vroller or drum is a crank cl3, employed for turning it. In this modification the brackets CZ, in which the roller D'vis journaled, and the crank dSfor turning said roller or drum will extend into the receptacle A and be located therein in such a manner as to prevent the cover being accidentally dislocated.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have shown a modified construction of the receptacle,which consists in making it cylindrical in shape instead of rectangular, as shown in the other figures cf the drawings. In this modification, which is more especially designed as a toy, the receptacle maybe turned out of one piece of material, and the clothes-line holder or reel may be of either of the constructions shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and above described; but I preferV to use the construction shown in Fig. 4.

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Instead of making the sides of the box or ,receptacle square, as shown in Figs. l to 3, inclusive, I may make them deeper, thus Inoki ing the receptacle deeper, and may provide it with a bail b', of anysuitable kind and inateriztl.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with a receptacle, of a cover therefor provided With L handle to remove and hold the saine@ spindle journaled in the eover, e drum mounted on the spindle, end :t plate secured on the lower end of the Spindle and provided with a handle to turn the seme, said plate being slightly smaller in tinlly as described.

SIMON BURKMAN. Witnesses OHAS. C. TILLMAN, E. A. DUGGAN. 

